At least that was what I was told from one of the instructors giving out the test.

There was a tricky question where it stated choose on or more answers.....And there was only one answer....so they were just bluffing you to see if you picked another....But i believe you get full credit anyways....because you did pick the right answer.

If memory serves me right, at my review they handed out a sheet showing if you answered two answers it was no credit. The sheet was giving as an example sought.

In general all these scores seem pretty great and at first that was making me nervous. "Oh God everyone is gonna have a 99 or better on this friggin test!". I was worried that 10,000 people would have 99 or better with residency, vet, etc. But honestly think about it, not many people are gonna come on this site and brag about getting 10 NC's and 40 PC. Aside from the fact that those people probably dont care enough to find a site like this, no one wants to stick their neck out and say they bombed a whole test.

I just got back from my review. I had form B and got three wrong in the first part which I protested all of them because my answers made sense.. But I got a lot of partial credits on the second part. That part of the test was bull**** you had to be lying to get full credit!!

hey dont post on here very much but try and keep up with the post. I didnt go to my review because of living out of state and down south. wanted to say congrats to all who did well. I took a class this week with a very very good source(some one pretty secure with info who is a fdny member ) and this was his info to me.
short about 6-7000
hiring about 3-4000 off the list
for every 1 they put into the acadmey they go through 3-4 people(due to cpat and other factors)
in good times thats 12,000 in this economy more people will take the job so figure about 9000
what it comes down to is if you get your list number which should be out by JULY if you are under 10000 you have a shot in the top 5000 you are in really good shape since im a fireman down south just keeping my fingers crossed for july and hoping it all goes well. just wanted to share the info good luck to all

really like how active the forum has been lately.. keep it up guys, and good luck to everyone.. While you wait for your lists number just keep on training, nothing beats good health and staying physically active

I scrolled the last two pages in trying to catch up. Hope someone hasn't covered my thoughts yet:

A wise man once said that these personality tests are built to find leaders and followers. From that, they can choose one, the other or both. What if it goes deeper? What if, based on partial credits and full credits, the put us into groups of personalities? Say I got nothing but FC's and they call me a leader. Another candidate gets nothing but PC's on the low-end (as each PC would be weighted differently) would be a follower and a third candidate gets a mix (might be labelled as something like "follower with leadership tendencies"). Then, they find out in which group a majority of the minorities scored and put the most weight on that group of personalities. From this group, they would start the list numbers. Remember, the test won't be validated until after the judge takes a look and approves. It's easy to throw together some statistics like what I've described

One way or the other, I wouldn't freak out about how anyone did on the personality questions just yet. You may know if you got FC or PC on a question, but who knows how each question will be weighted. The powers that be can weigh each question however they want and you'll never really know how they did it, so long as it achieves their desired agenda.

My best advice would be to work out and enjoy the summer! All this speculation is just gunna drive everyone mad.

On the personality section to get a perfect score you had to of lied... maybe they were looking for the people who got in the "middle" since they were probably more truth full

Thats what the instructor of the prep class I took said. That if you get a perfect score then they know you're lying, so you want to be in a certain range thats a little under perfect. But seeing how their grading every question individual, it doesn't seem like thats what their going to do, but at the end of the day, none of us know how their going to grade it, well just have to wait and find out.

I got my review tomorrow and appreciate all the info you guys have provided thus far. One question and it's definitely going to be varied, but what would your best guesstimate of how long this review thing is? Is it fair to assume if you took a long time on the exam then it's going to take awhile on the review? If this sounds like a rahtard question, I apologize in advance.

Thats what the instructor of the prep class I took said. That if you get a perfect score then they know you're lying, so you want to be in a certain range thats a little under perfect. But seeing how their grading every question individual, it doesn't seem like thats what their going to do, but at the end of the day, none of us know how their going to grade it, well just have to wait and find out.

I hope thats the way it is but I doubt they would have said it was the correct answer if it was a trick qualifier.

Does anyone know how the list works if your under 21? Do they just skip over you? or are you just called to the first class available after you turn 21? Also, am I the only one that thinks it's complete BS that volunteers don't get any extra credit?

Sdeluca they will make you go through the whole process and put you on hold till you reached the required age to get in the academy. About the volunteer part, i dont want to offend anyone here or anyone whos family member, close friend or what lever but no I don't think is BS, there's not much requirements to be a volunteer firefighter so to me there's no reason on why they should, actually most volunteers that I seen are obesed or close to it. Just my opinion anyways others can think differently.

Ok thanks, that cleared up a lot.
On the volunteer thing, I mean your right on some aspects but most of the young guys like me are in shape, and are the ones taking the test. And I mean you get points for living in the city, but no points for already being trained and experienced as a firefighter? Doesn't make sense to me but it is what it is I guess